Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-08-16

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he will find Hopkinsville a pleasant
and profitable place to do business.
W. II. Olvey, Ag't., having opened
first-class jewelry store at Reichert's
old stand, would be pleased to have
the public call and examine his goods.
lie has complete line of watches
and jewelry in general, and also
makes repairing speciality.
For the benefit of those who are
disposed TO censure the KENTucKIAN
FOR inserting matter favoring poly
gamy, we will state that the objec-
tionable articles, like other matters
outside of the domain of news, are
published at our regular advertising
rates.
From careful estimates made, Il
does not appear that more than three
per cent of the citizens of Hop
kinsvllle are opposed to the o. V.
proposition. The people are practi-
cally unanimous for the new railroad.
Even in the country large proper
ton, If not a majority, of the voters
are for it.
Work on the Fairview pike is go.
ing ahead as fast as the circumstances
will allow. The contractors want
more hands and if there is an idle
man in the county he can get work
at good wages. Engineer Spur in
forms us that the force now at work
is finishing up about one mile of pike
every ten days.
Judge w. p. Winfree has brought
suit against Judge A. II. Anderson,
in the Circuit court, for 81, 250.20 SAL
airy and emoluments of the county
judges Office during the latter's occu-
pancy and also for $500 damages for
being kept out and having to pay
attorneys, etc. This is the current
chapter of that thrilling and interest
ing serial, "The Winfree- Auder OF
Contested Election Case"
With cheap freight,sputting her on
an equal footing with other markets,
Hopkinsvile would multiply her in
dustries with wonderful celebrity.
The great expanse ofrich land around
here would produce large crops of
vegetables aud small fruits of all
kinds would soon induce the estab-
lishment of large canning houses and
the cultivation of garden farms.
Hopkinsville Machine shops are
doing a good trade in repairing and
overhauling machinery of all kinds,
and in manufacturing various articles.
Another railroad will enable them to
reach the farmers and millers of
Caldwell, Trigg, Crittenden and
Union counties. They will be COM
PEELED TO bring in more skilled work.
men in iron to work in the shops.
And every workman brought here
must be fed by our farmers, and per-
haps his family will contain half
dozen more who must be fed.
Hopkinsville has the reputation of
making the finest quality of flour.
Not long since a gentleman in Louis
vile, who had previously tested the
article, sent an order to Hopkinsville
mill for several barrels of paten! -four,
stating that it was much better than
any flour made in Louisville. Give
our mills another railroad and they
will double their shipments Of flour,
while the Importance Of Hopkinsville
as a grain market will be largely en-
HANGED, to the great profit Of our
farmers.
There is not the least danger that
Hopkinsville will overshoot the mark
by having two competing railroads
in place of one railroad. COMPETE
ton will always increase trade in a
county where material for trade ex-
lists, and Christian and the surround
ing counties constitute rich and
highly productive country whose
resources and power have never been
fully developed. In less than five
years after the arrival of the Compel
ing railroad at Hopkinsville, railroad
shipments from this point will be
trebled.
The property of the districts about
$4,000 and to raise $1,000 would
require rate of only 20 cents. The
natural and steady increase in prop
erty valuation would create a sink
ing fund large enough 10 gradually
csll in the bonds after two or three
years. II Is Furthermore safe to say
that in four years time the city school
bonds ($9,5O0) and the county rail-
road bonds Isl 10000 will be paid of
and the tax stopped. Both city and
county are in a good fix and there
never will be a more opportune time
to build another railroad.
If another railroad will save us
100000 annually in the single article
of coal, 1t is worth building for that
saving alone. But It will secure u'
. cheaper freights all along the line OIL
merchandise, in dry goods, groceries
hardware, grain, flour and tobacco
d Hopkinsville district will save III
:, entire subscription of 100000 within
one year after the construction Of I
!, competing railroad. Take your pen
!. ell and figure up the saving in salt
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